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Maybe in some places lockdown went on for that long, but many places (including here) it was all of a few weeks and yet these problems are seemingly universal across the west (or at least North America).
It's the same as the argument that rampant sickness is from immunity debt. If the damage came from lockdowns, why is it just as bad or worse in areas that didn't have lockdowns or had short lockdowns? It's because it's being caused by COVID.
Not assigning blame to working parents who had no choice, just explaining how a stark early lesson in the capitalist meat grinder might change how you think.
Yeah whenever people talk about the “problems caused by lockdowns” my response is “what lockdowns”
The “lockdown” here started on March 17th, 2020. By May pretty much everything was open, including bars. Schools reopened with the new school year, with a mask requirement (only thanks to the county going against the state’s ban on mask requirements for schools) that ended by the end of December.
They did nothing to improve ventilation, space requirements, etc. and obviously COVID spread rapidly in schools immediately. These kids just had an early end to the school year and then saw their parents thrown to the meat grinder before being shoved into one themselves. Oh and when they went back the school shootings went right back to higher than ever before.
One of the main reasons “kids are so bad now” is they literally don’t see a future, they’ve seen how little their lives are valued and while the kindergarteners may not understand climate change, middle and high schoolers definitely do and are staring down the barrel of it going “Oh none of this matters”
Part of the trauma for me was the lack of willingness to lockdown
Same. The realization that the society I live in is run by a literal death cult and they will do nothing to protect people’s lives. I am a fundamentally different person now than I was in February 2020 and that is the main reason.
For me it was the fact that what precautions they did take seemed to only be the most obnoxious, least effective versions, but then we were still allowed in the break rooms like normal, completely defeating the purpose of any of the previous measures.
And then people would get mad at me when I didn't take it seriously. How can I? Nothing is being done! All things that need to be done to contain it aren't happening and aren't being enforced. To think that you, individually, can stop COVID spread when every factory in the nation is still operating full-bore and the worst delivery and food-service jobs are still running around is a fucking joke.
We made vanity food items and we were still considered essential.
The only people I know that got any time off for this stuff pretty much so jack-all all day anyways.